Three practical ways to address climate anxiety

The Conversation ^ | June 17, 2024 | by Hanna Zagefka

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Climate anxiety is becoming more and more widespread. Taking direct positive action can help you cope with your eco-anxiety while helping to address the climate emergency.

Climate anxiety is not a pathology but a healthy response to a real threat. Inaction is related to feeling powerless whereas action is about taking control.

My team of social psychologists recently surveyed over 1,200 people in collaboration with charity GlobalGiving UK. This research focused on eco-anxiety and other drivers of donations to provide disaster relief for climate-related disasters.

So, if you want to act but don’t know where to start, here are three ways to make a tangible positive impact while helping to manage your anxiety:

1. Donate to climate charities

You can channel your anxiety into action by helping those impacted by climate-related disasters, for example through donating to climate-related causes.

2. Make environment top priority at work

Advocate for positive climate action more widely. Let your employer know that you and your colleagues expect them to have a strong environment, social and governance (ESG) agenda.

3. Share your worries and amplify solutions

Amplify your mission by talking to others about your climate-related worries. Sharing worries is a powerful tool for managing them. Sharing concerns can help you find others who have similar fears, which will ease the pressure. There is comfort in community, solidarity and in knowing that you are not alone with your worries.

[rktman]

#1. Quit being an idiot!

#2. See #1

[cgbg]

“Let your employer know that you and your colleagues expect them to have a strong environment, social and governance (ESG)”

That is a great way to let your employer and fellow employees know you are a brainwashed idiot—dangerous to yourself and others.

[equaviator]

“Climate anxiety is not a pathology but a healthy response to a real threat.”

I’m anxious to know how they’ll revise their predictions and how much time a new countdown clock will give us. /s

[Mustangman]

Climate anxiety? Ha! Who knows who ultimately is pushing this climate hoax. China? Russia? Obama? In any case, someone is trying to convince the west to lay down and die and the lefties sure are doing their best to bend over and take it.

Until the west starts seriously pushing nuclear energy (a provable and doable alternative to carbon based energy), I’ll never believe it’s anything more than political BS.

By the way, we live in an ever changing universe. To those who think they can control the climate, the ocean waves, and what time the sun rises in the morning....good luck to you.

[Tell It Right]

Our Modern Warm Period is one of many during the past 12K years. And the warm periods are the good times to be alive (higher crop yields, more predictable precipitation patterns, less deaths by plague).

Only the leftist cult followers believe the Modern Warm Period is either unique or a bad thing.

[Alas Babylon!]

Let your employer know that you and your colleagues expect them to have a strong environment, social and governance (ESG) agenda.

And a great way to get your employer to say:

You're here to work, not advocate.

[brookwood]

“Climate anxiety is becoming more and more widespread”
Not for me because it is a fraud. December 20, 2023 it was 22 below zero at the top of Stratton. That will make you anxious to get the hell inside.

[eyeamok]

1. Don’t join a cult using a false religion...

[brookwood]

” Share your worries and amplify solutions”
So to stop our climate anxiety we should “share our worries” so that OTHER PEOPLE get more anxiety? Typical logic of the climate scammers, they are beyond stupid, they are evil.

[Brian Griffin]

I don’t see any sign of climate anxiety on the busy highways of America or in the overcrowded tourist places in Europe.

[Brian Griffin]

“Who knows who ultimately is pushing this climate hoax.”

White Europeans who want to bamboozle ‘people of color’ in countries like Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia to sell their fossil fuels cheaply.

[AZJeep]

How to address climate anxiety?

Just forget about it!

Simple as that!

[butlerweave]

Ya only an Idiot would worry about climate it’s only weather ,LOL

[Alas Babylon!]

I think there has been a mild warming taking place since 1850. Since 1850, the global temperature, if you could derive such a thing back then, has gone up 1.5 degrees C. That’s it.

Honestly, I don’t why they have such faith in the early numbers; thermometers were not perfect and very few global recording stations were set up—it took decades for those things to happen, and the World Wars meant a lot of data wasn’t collected. I do agree that very accurate instruments and a wide expanse of collection points are now available, but the only real reason they start at 1850 is because it was really cold then and steam powered industrialization was becoming common.

1.5 degrees C, globally, over 150 years? Very mild, a scientist would conclude.

The hoax is in the “projected numbers”. Some computer models show up to 10 degrees C rise by 2100. But that’s just guess work, without adequate data to show how they came with that... They do input data into the model, but since it’s future data, they’ve been putting in excessive numbers that—so far—haven’t panned out.

Those same models, run in 2005, for example, say we should be at 3.5 degrees C rise by now, but we’re not. They don’t explain very well. They say, for example, “unforeseen ocean swelling from the far depths”, or some other nonsense that SHOULD have been in their model. And guess what else?

Since the model has already shown itself—and others like it—to be failable, they still go on with it—not adjusting new data or information, but just the same erroneous forecasting as if that expected 3.5 rise was not false!

Talk about a hoax! It’s all in the model!

[Bob434]

1: realize that it is a scam

2: note that the world will ,ast a minimum of 1007 more years guaranteed.

3: stop hanging around with morons who think that man can change the climate globally

[rktman]

Pretty sure the alternative might be harder on humans. Again.

[Bob434]

LOL the employer could reply back to the employee:

“due to the claims of climate change, i’m going to have to let you go, and hire someone who doesn’t hyperventilate so much”

[Lee N. Field]

Climate anxiety is not a pathology

Yes, it is.

"What's it like, being in a cult?"

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Global warming got you upset? Look at what we lived with back in the 1970s! The coming Ice Age 1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970) 1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970) 1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970) 1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970) 1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970) 1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970) 1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970) 1970 – Dirt Will .Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970) 1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971) 1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971) 1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971) 1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971) 1971 – Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight (The Day, November 1, 1971) 1971 – Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971) 1972 – Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972) 1972 – Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972) 1972 – Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972) 1972 – British expert on Climate Change says Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972) 1972 – Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age (Portsmouth Times, ?September 11, 1972?) 1972 – New Ice Age Slipping Over North (Press-Courier, September 11, 1972) 1972 – Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972) 1972 – Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, ?September 12, 1972?) 1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972) 1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972) 1972 – Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972) 1973 – The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973) 1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973) 1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974) 1974 – Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974) 1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974) 1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974) 1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974) 1974 – Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says (Beaver Country Times, ?December 4, 1974?) 1974 – Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel (The Telegraph, ?December 5, 1974?) 1974 – More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster (Daily Sentinel – ?December 5, 1974?) 1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974) 1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975) 1975 – Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975) 1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975) 1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, ?March 2, 1975?) 1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator – ?March 2, 1975?) 1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975) 1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, ?March 2, 1975?) 1975 – There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead (Tri City Herald, ?March 2, 1975?) 1975 – Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age? (The Robesonian, ?March 3, 1975?) 1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975) 1975 – The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975) 1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975) 1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975) 1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975) 1976 – The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book] (Lowell Ponte, 1976) 1977 – Blizzard – What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book] (George Stone, 1977) 1977 – The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book] (The Impact Team, 1977) 1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976) 1977 – The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977) 1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977) 1978 – The New Ice Age [Book] (Henry Gilfond, 1978) 1978 – Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978) 1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’ (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978) 1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978) 1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, ?January 17, 1978?) 1978 – Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978) 1978 – The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978) 1978 – An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978) 1979 – A Choice of Catastrophes – The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book] (Isaac Asimov, 1979) 1979 – Get Ready to Freeze (Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)